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2007 Finalists


The 2007 finalists were announced in Auckland and Wellington on Tuesday 15 May. Congratulations to all of the finalists listed below.

CIO of the Year
– sponsored by Sun Microsystems
  • Wayne Champion, West Coast District Health Board
  • Andrew Diver, Vero Insurance New Zealand
  • Russell Turner, MetService NZ
Young ICT Talent
– sponsored by Eagle Technology
  • Richard Guest
  • Amanda White
  • Jonny Mole
Excellence in the Use of ICT for Customer Service
– sponsored by Icon Recruitment
  • Dispute Resolution Service for Project eWork
  • Environment Waikato for the Blue Book project
Excellence in the Use of ICT in Education: Primary & Secondary
  • Nelson Schools High Speed Network for The Loop project
  • Northern Health School for Project LIVE
  • Rangitoto College for its Electrotechnology Courseware
Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government
– sponsored by Unisys
  • The Department of Internal Affairs for its National Dog Database
  • The Department of Internal Affairs for its Electronic Monitoring System
  • National Library of New Zealand for its Web Curator Tool
  • GNS Science for GeoNet
Excellence in the Use of ICT in Health
– sponsored by Simpl
  • West Coast District Health Board for its integrated electronic health record
  • Research Review
  • National Paediatric Oncology Steering Group for LEAP IT (Late Effects Assessment Programme IT)
Excellence in the Use of ICT in a Not-for-Profit Organisation
  • CCS Disability Action for its Benecura development & implementation
  • Youthline Charitable Trust for Y.O.R.A (Youthline Online Roster Application)
  • Louise Perkins Foundation for its Sweet Louise system
Excellence in the Use of ICT in a Small Business
  • HM Associates for ActionStep
  • Canning & Associates for its remote rural office using wireless broadband
  • Vadacom for Sugar and VadaXchange
Innovative Use of ICT
– sponsored by Gen-i
  • Biomatters for Geneious
  • The Optima Corporation for SIREN – Simulation for Improved Response for Emergency Networks
  • Straylight Studios for The Kitchen
Excellence in Mobile, Wireless & Telecommunication Solutions
  • Canning and Associates for WIZwireless rural and remote internet service provider
  • Spinning Planet for its media convergence
  • KiwiBank for Mobile Banking
Most Successful Project Implementation of the Year
  • The Department of Internal Affairs for their Electronic Monitoring System
  • Foodstuffs South Island for their ‘Take the easy way out’ self checkout system
  • Inland Revenue Department for the Telecommunications Review Project
Overall Excellence in the Use of ICT
– sponsored by IBM
  • Airways New Zealand for their Flight-Yield™ automated aviation billing package
  • The Department of Internal Affairs for their Electronic Monitoring System
  • West Coast District Health Board for the integrated electronic health record